My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.
An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.
More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior.
Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.
Nobody can ever be fully prepared to deal with a new, painful situation. Sometimes I react with patience and sometimes I react by doing something impulsive. But I always learn from such experiences.
There are tons of things in your home and life that you don't use, need, or even particularly want. They just came into your life as impulsive flotsam and jetsam and never found a good exit. Whether you're aware of it or not, this clutter creates indecision and distractions.
People are more impulsive and they get slightly less impulsive as they get older and the impulsiveness interacting with the depression is particularly devastating and lethal, potentially lethal.
Because I know you, Percy Jackson. In many ways, you are impulsive, but when it comes to your friends, you are as constant as a compass needle. You are unswervingly loyal, and you inspire loyalty. You are the glue that will unite the seven.
Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.
We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good.
. . . science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common-sense rounded out and minutely articulated. It is therefore as much an instinctive product, as much a stepping forth of human courage in the dark, as is any inevitable dream or impulsive action.
As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.
Maybe but. . . if being impulsive means ruining other people's lives, then maybe I should just stay the same.
While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.
We are better able to bring the same sort of pragmatic planning and analytical pre-work to our values scripts that we would bring to any other business position that we espouse. This approach enables us to be more reasonable, more respectful, less impulsive and more constructive. Risk cannot be eliminated entirely but that is true in all of life.
Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.
